Tech News

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recommending that Windows Operating Systems users apply Microsoft security patch MS06-040 as quickly as possible. This security patch is designed to protect against a vulnerability that, if exploited, could enable an attacker to remotely take control of an affected system and install programs, view, change, or delete data, and create new accounts with full user rights.

I am not sure why they are telling everyone to update?!? Maybe they have built in a backdoor or they are just trying to be nice and warn everyone. What do they know that we don’t? All the other times there have been serious updates DHS says nothing…

Just think of all the different searches you have done over the years. I bet there are over hundreds and thousands of them (Maybe more for tech users). Well what if some one stored those searches? How hard would it be to track you down, not very hard. AOL released (by accident) 500,000 users’ searches! And NYT has already tracked one of them down. No. 4417749 is now know as Thelma Arnold. In the release of data there were 3 months worth of searches by this person. 3 months worth data is all it took to track this person down.

Scary Stuff.

Kayak.com is a new search tool for you travelers out there. I was just watching tv and seen a commercial for this site and decided to check it out. Kayak searches over 120 plus sites to find the best rates.

One of the things that interest me is their API. I have a site in mind and was thinking about different ways to do it. Now I may have an option? You are limited to 1000 searches a day. I doubt I will excede that any time soon. That is of course if I ever get time to start a new site. LOL